Born in New Orleans before migrating to Chicago, Mahalia Jackson (191172) is undoubtedly the most widely known black gospel singer, having achieved fame among African American communities in the 1940s then finding a wide audience among nonblack U.S. and international audiences after she signed with major label Columbia Records in 1954. The newest entry in OUPs celebrated Readers on American Musicians series,The Mahalia Jackson Readerplaces Jacksons musical performances and their reception against key changes in 20thcentury America, changes that include transformations of the recorded music industry, the increasing visibility of the civil rights movement, a florescence of Cold Warera religiosity, and an explosion of popularity of black gospel music itself. Jacksons career combines parallel tracks as a black church singer and as a national pop celebrity, and makes her one of the most complex and important black artists of the postwar decades. Gospel is a particularly challenging genre to study because of the paucity of sources. Becauseof Jacksons celebrity, there is more substantial coverage of her life and work than other gospel artists, but Jackson scholarship is still largely dependent on trade biographies from the 1970s for source material. For this reader, Mark Burford has gone beyond the standard biographies and has drawn from extensive archival research, including in the volume interview transcripts and the largelyuntouched papers of Jacksons associate Bill Russell,...

Binding: Hardcover;472 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 955.06 g; Dimensions: N/A

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